Word Meanings - FAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hobby ; freak; whim. -- Fad"dist, n. It is your favorite fad to draw plans. G. Eliot.

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• HOBBYHORSICAL
  Pertaining to, or having, a hobby or whim; eccentric; whimsical. Sterne.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• HOBBY; HOBBYHORSE
  cf. hober to stir, move; prob. of German or Scand. origin; cf. Dan. 1. A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag. Johnson. 2. A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which
• HOBBY
  A small, strong-winged European falcon , formerly trained for hawking. (more info) hobereau a hobby, a species of falcon. OF. hober to move, stir. Cf.
• FREAKISH
  Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two. L'Estrange. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick. Pope. -- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness,
• FREAK
  To variegate; to checker; to streak. Freaked with many a mingled hue. Thomson.
• FREAKING
  Freakish. Pepys.
• HELIOTROPE
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• HELIOTROPIC
  Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
• APHELIOTROPIC
  Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.
• HELIOTROPISM
  The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
• HELIOTYPIC
  Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
• HELIOTYPY
  A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
• HELIOTYPE
  A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
• APHELIOTROPISM
  The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
• DIAHELIOTROPISM
  A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.
• DIAHELIOTROPIC
  Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.
• HELIOTROPER
  The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.